Global Groove on WOMR

20/09/2024

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08/09/2024

I’ll be filling in for tomorrow Sunday 8th September on Africa Oyé from 5 to 9 pm eastern. Couple hours new and interesting global sounds followed by The Third Cup. Wind the weekend down with me.

Only on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Shows are archived for 2 weeks at WOMR.ORG.

Photo: me and Younoussa DIALLO 1984

09/08/2024

Two opportunities to tune in this coming week. Sunday August 11 6 to 9pm (Cape Cod Time) I am filling in for Africa Oyé host Sam Holmstock who is getting a well deserved break. Then Friday August 16 5-7pm for my regular Global Groove slot.

This beautiful painting is by Connecticut artist Nora Hillman (and high school friend) and I just love her work and think it fits so well with the vibe of the music I play.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Shows are archived for 2 weeks at WOMR.ORG.

01/08/2024

This Friday August 2nd at 5pm Eastern on Global Groove we celebrate the life of Toumani Diabate, Malian master of the Kora who passed away last week at 58. A legend. It’s also pledge week on Outermost Community Radio, and we are giving away all kinds of cool stuff including a super cool WOMR Beach Towel, tickets to Outer Cape Music Festival, and a Wellfleet Harbor sail with me in my Cape Cod catboat.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my insta bio.

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15/07/2024

The Brazilian Invasion. Before the British Invasion, before the hippies, there was a new wave of cool originating in Brazil and washing across North America and the world. At its core is the rhythm of Samba, the batucada. Expressed on the guitar. Smooth music to cool you off on even the hottest summer evening. The Bossa Nova. New Wave. This week on the Global Groove let’s ride that wave. Global Groove full moon Bossa Nova edition. 5pm Friday.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on Global Groove on WOMR, WWW.WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my insta bio.

05/07/2024

Outermost Bateria in the Wellfeet Fourth of July parade yesterday! Our first gig! Was fun sharing the joy and the music. Tonight is 5:00 eastern time.

Let’s celebrate Independence and Freedom! This week was Independence Day in Mozambique, Cape Verde, Peru and USA

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my insta bio.

07/06/2024

Early Father’s Day tribute this Friday night June 7 at 5pm Eastern. “Larry Greenspan’s HiFi” will feature the music my dad played in our living room in North Massapequa back in my formative years in the 1960s. Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz, Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte. Babatunde and Yma Sumac. My mom putting out baked stuff clams and cream cheese wrapped in salami, dad mixing up a pitcher of daiquiris, and the first record dropping onto the turntable signaling the start of the cocktail party. I went to bed dreaming about the model on the cover of “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”

Unlike the ‘Exotica’ craze of the previous decade, this music was not the ersatz global schmaltzy lounge music of Martin Denny and Esquival; this music was genuine and musically complex, helped me make my first real connections with the wider world and spawned a lifelong love of foreign travel and different cultures.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my insta bio.

02/06/2024

Bonus!

Wrap up your weekend with World Beat with DJ Pablo. Tonight, Sunday June 2 6-9pm. Ive got some tasty cuts from Africa and the Americas including Othman Wahabi, Baaba Maal, Sam Magwana, Sia Tolne, Elida Almeida, and Ghanaian Highlife records (It’s E.T. Mensah’s birthday!) And....The Third Cup. All stacked next to the turntable and ready to spin

Tune in to WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket.

(And…since curious minds want to know, this photo is from the Landes region in southwestern France, where flat and marshy terrain led shepherds to turn to a unique solution – stilt-walking)

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29/05/2024

Special Show! Wrap up your upcoming weekend with World Beat with DJ Pablo. Sunday Night June 2 6-9pm. Weather looking good Sunday with a high of 66F (19C), breezy, sunny, cool and dry. Ive got some Othman Wahabi, Baaba Maal, Sam Magwana, Sia Tolne, Elida Almeida, and Ghanaian Highlife records (It’s E.T. Mensah’s birthday!) stacked next to the turntable to share with you all.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my instagram bio.

03/05/2024

opened their sold out show at in London with “Ultrus Horas” from 1982 album Pirates Choice. 50th anniversary tour!~ A few original members and lots of young talent made for awesome evening. Listen for some of favorite Orchestra Baobab tracks on next Global Groove show when Im back from London, Friday May 17th 5pm on

01/03/2024

Peace Corps Week commemorates March 1, 1961, the day that President John F. Kennedy established the agency. The annual celebration honors how the Peace Corps fosters connections and contributes to meaningful change – in the United States and around the world.

Tonight I’ll share some music & stories from the West African country of Senegal where I did my Peace Corps service. Also some early Congolese Rumba from Kinshasa because it’s great, and some of my favorite music from Mexico because well, there is some awesome Cumbia music I love and also Sophie & Jake have been living there. All that and TICKET GIVEAWAY. What ever you’re doing from 5 to 7 this evening, make Global Groove your soundtrack.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket.

15/02/2024

This Friday night February 16 5pm Cape Cod time is Groove on Outermost Radio. This week it’s the annual Carnivale Road Trip…a musical tour to some musical destinations where the sound of drums get you masked and in your dancing shoes and moving. Then how about celebrating the music of Cote D’Ivoire, after Les Elephants just won the Africa Cup (thats football, or soccer to those this side of the big drink) It may be snowy out here at the tip of the glacial moraine, but we got some warm tunes for cold days.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my bio.


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14/02/2024

So The Monkees don’t really fit into the Global Groove genre, but they were part of the soundtrack of my youth and I have collected several fun facts I can share with you. 1. Peter Tork, whose birthday would have been today, lived in Mansfield, Connecticut where I went to college and where his father was economics professor 2. Michael Nesmith, the wool hat guy and actual good musician, well his mother was a secretary who invented WhiteOut and eventually sold it to Gillette for $47.5m and 3. Ok this is the weirdest. Micky Dolenz (still alive) was a child actor in early TV show Circus Boy and here, on this cover of a fanzine, appears to be dressed as a N**i Youth, smiling at the giant pe*****le clown with enormous feet as they sit on bails of straw. Happy Wednesday everyone.


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12/02/2024

Payomet presents Jake Blount as part of the Global Roots roadshow series curated by me! Wellfleet Preservation Hall March 16th 7pm. “An Afrofuturist in roots-music garb” -NPR. A rare appearance on the outer cape for this young dynamic multi-instrumentalist and superb vocalist. Don’t miss the opportunity to share an evening with him! m.blount

12/02/2024

Jake Blount is coming to Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Saturday, March 16 at 7pm!

Jake Blount, a young proponent of traditional music American music, brings an Afro-futuristic sound that digs into the roots of Black and indigenous stringband music.

This concert is presented by Payomet and was curated in collaboration with "DJ Pablo" of Global Grooves radio on WOMR.

Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of the year’s best albums by NPR and The New Yorker, earned a perfect 5-star review from The Guardian) highlighted the Black and Indigenous histories of popular American folk tunes, as well as revived songs unjustly forgotten in the whitewashing of the canon

Tickets still available at Payomet.org

Bob Boilen | January 6, 2023Jake Blount has an astonishing imagination. While a concert of folk tunes could simply be a singer and perhaps a fiddle or banjo,...

07/02/2024

Wow! Free concert in Worcester MA with and Ngoni Ba! This is a not to miss concert as this band is world class and serious groovers! For free tix and info check link in my bio

01/02/2024

This Friday night February 2 5pm Cape Cod time is Groove on Outermost Radio. We’ll celebrate Black History Month with music from Zaire 74, an epic concert uniting Black and Latino North American musicians with African musicians in Kinshasa Congo 1974. Also a number of birthdays, including my moms, and more. Warm tunes for cold days. Find your groove.

So yes musical explorers, It’s “Music without Borders” this Friday night and every 1st and 3rd Friday 5-7pm eastern time on WOMR.ORG and 92.1 FM Provincetown and 91.3 Orleans. And via the spiffy new WOMR app for iPhone and Android so you can carry us around and have a party in your pocket. Links to archived shows and playlists in my bio.

10/11/2023

I am curating two local cape concerts in December that just might help.

In 1892 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, himself struggling with chronic melancholy, sat down in his rooms in Saint Petersburg and scribbled out a musical score about a little girl named Clara whose wooden nutcracker comes alive as a handsome prince, and thus, The Nutcracker Suite was born. Then in 1959, Billy Strayhorn came to his longtime collaborator Duke Ellington with the idea to adapt the suite for the jazz idiom. The Duke agreed, saying of Tchaikovsky, “That cat was it,” and the Sugar Plum Fairy became Sugar Rum Cherry, a West Indian beauty walking through the cane fields.

In 2023, the Ellington/Strayhorn masterpiece was itself reimagined by the American acoustic string band Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun features David Grisman Quintet alumni fiddler Darol Anger and guitarist Grant Gordy, mandolinist Joe K. Walsh, professor of music at Berklee College of Music, and Scottish bassist Aidan O'Donnell. They bring a seemingly effortless virtuosity to the Ellington/Strayhorn material as they interpret it via their unique vocabulary of jazz, blues, swing, and Dawg music. Mr. Sun brings us heaping portions of much needed warmth and light.

Winters in Scandinavia are even longer and darker than those on Cape Cod, and the people of Sweden use song to get themselves through to spring. It was in these northern boreal forests that a style of hauntingly beautiful music evolved to give comfort in the short days, sung a ca****la by friends and family around blazing fires. Kongero is a group of four women whose voices blend in joyous and profound harmony as they share their arrangements of both traditional and modern Swedish folk music.

Mr. Sun and Kongero are part of the Payomet Global Roots Music Series, curated in collaboration with my Global Groove radio show on WOMR

Hope to see you at either or both shows. They will be cozy.